Pukekohe test/track day

[cat007]

Hey all,

Well had an "interesting" day at the track.
My oil drain was leaking which I wrapped in heat wrap, turned into a smoke machine, almost catching fire. So after about 3 laps, I had to stop.

I took the old pipe off - went into Pukekohe town to look for an engineers - although, being mid-day on a Saturday, that was a hard ask apparently, as the first 3 people said "nah cant be bothered" - useless c*nts!

Anyway - found someone who can do it - back to the track, now it's too short - bugger - so thanks to the oh so kind David Linton (thank you sir!!) - I soon had a long piece of rubber and was able to put it on!

Round the track - a few times - getting used to actually driving fast, and not crashing - I spun going into castrol - all I could think about was a video on youtube with a guy who did the same and mashed his mag on the ripple strip - so I managed to "straddle" the ripple strip and save me all sorts of problems hehe.

Anyway - I went in after that - let everything cool down - went out again - got a few good laps in - then, on the same corner, understeered and without driving onto the over-large ripple strips I straighted up and went onto the grass, then back on the track

Best lap of the day was a 1:15.4

Very happy with that - I wanted to get a 1:20 - so yay

Any - all is well with the car - except for the leaking manifold - dam.....

Video's of the spin and some incar laps will be up later this avo

[2jayzgte]

Hey all,

Well had an "interesting" day at the track.
My oil drain was leaking which I wrapped in heat wrap, turned into a smoke machine, almost catching fire. So after about 3 laps, I had to stop.

I took the old pipe off - went into Pukekohe town to look for an engineers - although, being mid-day on a Saturday, that was a hard ask apparently, as the first 3 people said "nah cant be bothered" - useless c*nts!

Anyway - found someone who can do it - back to the track, now it's too short - bugger - so thanks to the oh so kind David Linton (thank you sir!!) - I soon had a long piece of rubber and was able to put it on!

Round the track - a few times - getting used to actually driving fast, and not crashing - I spun going into castrol - all I could think about was a video on youtube with a guy who did the same and mashed his mag on the ripple strip - so I managed to "straddle" the ripple strip and save me all sorts of problems hehe.

Anyway - I went in after that - let everything cool down - went out again - got a few good laps in - then, on the same corner, understeered and without driving onto the over-large ripple strips I straighted up and went onto the grass, then back on the track

Best lap of the day was a 1:15.4

Very happy with that - I wanted to get a 1:20 - so yay

Any - all is well with the car - except for the leaking manifold - dam.....

Video's of the spin and some incar laps will be up later this avo

Good Stuff once you get this track bug drag racing will become a distant memory.

My day at the track was a disaster Manfeild was absolutely flooded aqua planed doing about 150 kph but somehow saved it but the day was a mess there were huge lakes on alot of the track so the day in the end was cancelled.

Not a bad time first time out but no doubt with some more practise that time will drop fairly rapidly.

[cat007]

Video's uploaded!!

First two are just of me coming out of the hair pin - you cant really hear much - makes it look so slow hehe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2yJHE9ejLg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDX6wupElrw

Then there's 2 parts of an incar view - 2 seperate times out on the track. First video you'll see me have a run in with a curb and some grass/dirt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnijdtJbxjs

Part 2 I did almost the same thing on the same corner - came in a little too hot and too straight and I understeered and decided to go off road heh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSarvJTb3Q

[postfach]

So, how did you find the brakes?

Also, just for fun, I played the second lap from your first video with the second lap on my old video, using the totalspan bridge as a start/finish reference and our laps are pretty much identical! When my car is running again, I challenge you to a duel

[cat007]

So, how did you find the brakes?

Also, just for fun, I played the second lap from your first video with the second lap on my old video, using the totalspan bridge as a start/finish reference and our laps are pretty much identical! When my car is running again, I challenge you to a duel

Brakes were pretty good. I didnt really push them that hard - plus I think I could've benifited from having better fluid.

a duel you say hehe - sounds good!

18th october - Might go out again

[Bazda]

Puke isnt too bad on brakes, only 2 hard braking points.

1.15.. not too bad, my old man was out there testing for a guy, an old cortina with a 200hp zetec engine. He managed 1.10s in that boat of a thing. 7s faster than the owner lol.

Where were you braking for the hairpin?

[cat007]

Puke isnt too bad on brakes, only 2 hard braking points.

1.15.. not too bad, my old man was out there testing for a guy, an old cortina with a 200hp zetec engine. He managed 1.10s in that boat of a thing. 7s faster than the owner lol.

Where were you braking for the hairpin?

I was braking at the tower thin on the left - which, according to google earth is about 300 meters out......

[postfach]

What tires were you using?

[Bazda]

Puke isnt too bad on brakes, only 2 hard braking points.

1.15.. not too bad, my old man was out there testing for a guy, an old cortina with a 200hp zetec engine. He managed 1.10s in that boat of a thing. 7s faster than the owner lol.

Where were you braking for the hairpin?

I was braking at the tower thin on the left - which, according to google earth is about 300 meters out......

tower??... there are braking signs.. 200m and 100m...

[cat007]

What tires were you using?

Fronts were brand new Toyo T1r's - 225/45/17
Rears were cheaper "Durun" tyres, 235/45/17

[Bazda]

What tires were you using?

Fronts were brand new Toyo T1r's - 225/45/17
Rears were cheaper "Durun" tyres, 235/45/17

Just road tyres! you need some semi slicks to drop your times considerbly, and will stop you from coming off the track

Toyo RA1s and R888s, really good priced as well.

[postfach]

tower??... there are braking signs.. 200m and 100m...

There's a camera(?) tower on the left, about 250m out

[cat007]

tower??... there are braking signs.. 200m and 100m...

I couldn't see them haha - It was pretty far out. There's a tower thing on the left.....

Here's where I was braking lol

[cat007]

Just road tyres! you need some semi slicks to drop your times considerbly, and will stop you from coming off the track

Toyo RA1s and R888s, really good priced as well.

Yeah - cant afford proper tyres just yet. There's a few other things I need to sort on the car first - like sorting my oil drain properly - and possibly a better BOV

But yes, you're right - decent tyres would help haha.

[Bazda]

Hmm that tower.. Im still on full tit! lol, I brake around the 170m mark going 260kph . I'm sure I can get it down to the 150m but not quite sure as the car is quite squirmy at 170m. Feels like i'm gona fly out the window from the Gs lol.

[cat007]

Hmm that tower.. Im still on full tit! lol, I brake around the 170m mark going 260kph . I'm sure I can get it down to the 150m but not quite sure as the car is quite squirmy at 170m. Feels like i'm gona fly out the window from the Gs lol.

haha - yeah - I think I could brake a little later and it'd be fine - but I was really just learning how it all worked hehe.

woah - 260kmh - faster than me haha

[Bazda]

Hmm that tower.. Im still on full tit! lol, I brake around the 170m mark going 260kph . I'm sure I can get it down to the 150m but not quite sure as the car is quite squirmy at 170m. Feels like i'm gona fly out the window from the Gs lol.

haha - yeah - I think I could brake a little later and it'd be fine - but I was really just learning how it all worked hehe.

woah - 260kmh - faster than me haha

Car cant go any faster as i'm sitting on the rev limiter in 5th gear at 8100rpm lol.

You want to be able to get down to the 200m mark with some better tires. I think 200m is a good starting point... but you still gota have some decent brakes i guess.

Keep on practicing

[cat007]

Car cant go any faster as i'm sitting on the rev limiter in 5th gear at 8100rpm lol.

You want to be able to get down to the 200m mark with some better tires. I think 200m is a good starting point... but you still gota have some decent brakes i guess.

Keep on practicing

Yeah, I'm doing about 7,500rpm in 5th at the end of the back straight lol

I think I could start braking a bit later - but I was really just learning haha. I cant wait to go out again hehe

Brakes should be ok - as long as I get some ducting and better fluid

I want to go out again now haha

[molex]

Good stuff! It's addictive isn't it?

Decent fluid is a must for longevity, spongy pedal at 200 something is never pleasant!

Car looks well set up and that's a pretty good time for a first time out, you should be shaving a good few seconds off with some practice with lines and braking points Lots of time to be made up at the end of the straight.

If you're serious about improving your times have a look at Racechrono. Combined with a cheap bluetooth GPS and a phone loads of people already have you can get a LOT of useful data out.. Lap times, braking point, corner speeds etc etc

[cat007]

Good stuff! It's addictive isn't it?

Decent fluid is a must for longevity, spongy pedal at 200 something is never pleasant!

Car looks well set up and that's a pretty good time for a first time out, you should be shaving a good few seconds off with some practice with lines and braking points Lots of time to be made up at the end of the straight.

If you're serious about improving your times have a look at Racechrono. Combined with a cheap bluetooth GPS and a phone loads of people already have you can get a LOT of useful data out.. Lap times, braking point, corner speeds etc etc

it's bloody adictive!

I already have a BB Curve which has gps - I was going to use BB tracker - but that only logs once every second. I'll look into better logging software for it....